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There are two sorts of games: those structured in advance, such as board games, and those invented spontaneously. These paintings are full of visual humour and imaginative ideas. Games can be seen as metaphors for life, which some feel is a serious game in itself. This subject cross-refers to design, mathematics and storytelling.
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Specimen list of cards
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- BALTHUS
- The card game
- CèZANNE
- The card players
- CHARDIN
- The House of Cards
- EARDLEY
- Children playing
- EGYPTIAN
- Ani and his wife Tutu
- GREEK
- A boy with a hoop
- GRISE
- Board game
- HARDY
- The volunteers
- HOFER
- Young girls playing cards
- LOWRY
- Children playing
- MATISSE
- Pianist and Checker players
- MEISSONIER
- *A game of piquet
- MEISTER B R
- Chess game with Death
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- MURILLO
- Beggar-boys playing dice
- NISTER
- Cat's Cradle
- RENOIR
- Girl with a hoop
- ROBERTS
- Playground and skipping
- ROWLANDSON
- The Dicers
- STEEN
- Card players
- TENIERS
- Gambling scene at an inn
- TER BORCH
- Trictrac players
- VAN LEYDEN
- The chess game
- VON UHDE
- Nursery
- The big sister
- VUILLARD
- The card game
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